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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Enterprise Architect provides strong support for managing your project. Project Managers can use Enterprise Architect to estimate project size, measure risk and effort, and assign resources to elements. Enterprise Architect also provides support for testing, change control and maintenance.</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">Metrics and Estimation</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Project <a href="estimation.htm">estimation</a> is working out how much time and effort is required to build and deploy a solution. Enterprise Architect provides the </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">Use Case metrics</span><span class="f_BodyText"> facility as a means of measuring the complexity of a system and getting an indication of the effort required to implement the model, and the project timescale. You base these estimates on carefully-calibrated metrics.</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">Resource Management</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText"><a href="resources2.htm">Resources</a> are the people who work on a project. You can assign roles to them and allocate tasks on specific model elements, which enables tracking of effort and estimation of time to complete.</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">Project Maintenance</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">During a project you monitor and manage the development and progress of individual model elements. You can record <a href="lifecycle.htm">problems, changes, issues and tasks</a> that affect these individual elements as they arise, and document the solution and associated details.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Similarly, Enterprise Architect helps you to manage <a href="changesanddefects.htm">changes and issues</a> that apply to the whole system.</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">Project Tasks and Issues</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">In the course of a project, there are various non-technical <a href="modeltasktab.htm">tasks</a> that are vital to the successful management and completion of the project, such as meetings. Enterprise Architect helps you to record and monitor these, and to manage non-technical <a href="projectandmodelissues.htm">project issues</a> as they arise.</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">Testing</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Enterprise Architect enables you to <a href="testing.htm">create and manage test scripts</a> for model elements, covering unit, integration, scenario, system and acceptance tests. You can import tests from other elements, generate them from scenarios, and generate test documentation and reports. You can also indicate the presence of tests on an element by displaying test information on the element in a diagram.</span></p>
<p class="p_SeeAlso"><span class="f_SeeAlso">See Also</span></p>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="modelglossaryoverview.htm">Project Glossary</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="updatepkgstatus.htm">Update Package Status</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="managebookmarks.htm">Manage Bookmarks</a></span></li>
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